Black Screen at Startup

[capitaman]

I installed windows 7 a few days ago, everything seemed to run fine until this morning.. Last night i updated windows because some updates where finished, during shutdown the update was installed. This morning i turn on my computer, it beeps once(loud beep not a soft beep) The screen doesnt flicker and goes into sleep mode. I tried disconnecting the videocard and reconnecting the wires, still doesnt work. I pressed F2, F8, F12, doesnt go to BIOS screen or Boot. I have no idea how to get the connection back. Has anyone has this problem and can help me find a solution.

thank you

 

[savageinjun]

did you make a repair cd?? are you familiar with UBCD?? get a boot cd so that you are able to repair.....if you like i can upload the cd but i dont think that will help as its for my machine, which will be different setup to yours... guaranteed

 

[Uber Philf]

Well, beeping means, u got some piece of hardware that isnt connected properly, or does not exist.or if everything is there, something is malfunctioning, or isnt connected properly. Cant remember what the 1 beep means. :S

 

[capitaman]

yeah would you mind uploading it for me? ill give it a shot. Now im getting an error about a boot device. I guess its not finding something to boot the operating system. i disconnected everything and connected it again.

 

[7echno7im]

man I posted a long post here.... but its not here any more.

If you can't get in to the BIOS, and it does not POST, likely its the hardware.

you will not be able to boot of anything if you cannot get to BIOS or POST, so restore disks will not work.

Basically I stated to pull everything out but what is essential.... CPU, 1 stick of RAM, Video card.

Try booting with that, remember to swap the 1 DIMM for another when testing in case you test with a possible bad dim.

One other thing, what video card do you have? 1 loud beep sounds like the sound I heard on a friends PC when he didn't plug in the 12v rail on his video card.

 

[dmex]

Last night i updated windows because some updates where finished, during shutdown the update was installed. This morning i turn on my computer, it beeps once(loud beep not a soft beep)

Hi Capitaman,

Whats the exact model/make of your motherboard so we can lookup your motherboard manual, it contains the beep error codes and we can give you the exact cause and device casuing the beep

Steven

 

[Uber Philf]

I thought GPU makes beeps,in corresponding with the SOS beep. Thats what i have experienced anyways.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I thought GPU makes beeps,in corresponding with the SOS beep. Thats what i have experienced anyways.

It's the motherboard that issues the beep command

Dependent on the make/model the MB will disperse a series of beeps depending on the error that has occured and this will only be found by reading the MB manual.

Although, it is possible that other hardware can have a form of PC speaker but the more obvious choice is the MB. Process of elimination i suppose

 

[Fisherking]

[FONT=&quot]Beep Codes: what they mean[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]American Megatrends (AMI BIOS)[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1 beep: Memory refresh timer error - RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2 beep: Parity error in [/FONT][FONT=&quot]base memory[/FONT][FONT=&quot] (first 64KB block) - RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3 beep: [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Base memory[/FONT][FONT=&quot] read/write test error - RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4 beep: Motherboard timer not operational - motherboard problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]5 beeps: Processor error.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]6 beeps: 8042 Gate A20 test error (cannot switch to protected mode) - motherboard (keyboard controller chip), keyboard or processor problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]7 beeps: General exception error (processor exception interrups error) - processor or motherboard problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8 beeps: Display memory error (video adapter problem) - check/re-seat video card.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9 beeps: AMIBIOS ROM checksum error - System ROM BIOS problem, re-seat or replace chip, try re-flashing BIOS or swap motherboard.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10 beeps: CMOS shutdown register read/write error - motherboard problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11 beeps: Cache memory test failed - Check motherboard jumper settings, if possible replace RAM cache, possible CMOS, processor or motherboard problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Phoenix up to version 4.x[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Beep pattern[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-1-2: CPU test failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Low 1-1-2: System board select failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-1-3: CMOS read/write error[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Low 1-1-3: Extended CMOS RAM failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-1-4: BIOS ROM checksum error[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-2-1: PIT failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-2-2: DMA failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-2-3: DMA read/write failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-1: RAM refreshy failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-2: 64KB RAM failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-3: First 64KB RAM failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-4: First 64KB logic failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-4-1: Address line failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-4-2: Parity RAM failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-4-3: EISA fail-safe timer test[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-4-4: EISA NMI port 462 test[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2-1-1 through to 2-4-4: 64KB RAM failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-1-1: Slave DMA register failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-1-2: Master DMA register failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-1-3: Master interrupt mask register failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-1-4: Slave interrup mask register failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-2-2: Interrupt vector error[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-2-3: Reserved[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-2-4: Keyboard controller failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-3-1: CMOS RAM power bad[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-3-2: CMOS configuration error[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-3-3: Reserved[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-3-4: Video memory failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3-4-1: Video initialisation failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-2-1: Timer failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-2-2: Shutdown failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-2-3: Gate A20 failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-2-4: Unexpected interrupt in protected mode[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-3-1: RAM test failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-3-3: Interval timer channel 2 failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-3-4: Time of day clock failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-4-1: Serial port failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-4-2: Parallel port failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4-4-3: Math co-processor failure[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Phoenix from version 4.x onwards[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Beep pattern [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1 short beep: everything OK and booting normally.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-1-1: RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-4-1: RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-4-3: RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-4-1-1: RAM problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-3-1-3: motherboard problem (keyboard controllerchip), keyboard or processor problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-2-2-3: BIOS ROM checksum error - System ROM BIOS problem, re-seat or replace chip, try re-flashing BIOS or swap motherboard.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2-1-2-3: ROM copyright notice error - System ROM BIOS problem, re-seat or replace chip, try re-flashing BIOS or swap motherboard.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2-2-3-1: Test for unexpected interrupts - possible motherboard or processor problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-2: ROM checksum error.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Award BIOS[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1 long and 2 short beeps: Video adapter error[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Repeated beeps: Memory error[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Repeating high-low beeps: CPU problem.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]High frequency beeps while running: Overheated CPU.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[Orbital Shark]

Nice post Fisherking

 

[Fisherking]

Thanks.

 

[marchmadness036]

I installed windows 7 a few days ago, everything seemed to run fine until this morning.. Last night i updated windows because some updates where finished, during shutdown the update was installed. This morning i turn on my computer, it beeps once(loud beep not a soft beep) The screen doesnt flicker and goes into sleep mode. I tried disconnecting the videocard and reconnecting the wires, still doesnt work. I pressed F2, F8, F12, doesnt go to BIOS screen or Boot. I have no idea how to get the connection back. Has anyone has this problem and can help me find a solution.

thank you

I am having this same problem, any fix yet?

 

[go away]

enter a bootable disk of XP/vista, and format your
drive in which window 7 . install your different OS and then try login. if u having this problem then format all your drives & delete all partition and make a new one. if this do not solve your problem then call a hardware people

 

[dmex]

I am having this same problem, any fix yet?

Yes, You need to read the entire thread however